everything out here, like you see behind me is just so dry. i broke off a piece of a bush back here and you can see how dry all of this is. with the winds that are blowing out here too, all of nakmakes f wildfire danger and it expanded. all three of these things play into each other. many of them don t have air-conditioners and they have seen this record temperature. we saw in utah, they tied an all time state record on saturday of 1 117 degrees in the southwest corner in st. george. these numbers are wreerds and they are weird in the wrong way. that s why every one is concerned. just to make it very clear, every one i spoken to about this says there s no doubt in their mind that this is climate change playing out here and we need to start paying attention right now. there s no more time to wait and talk about it.
is. vegas, phoenix, eight states in the southwest under some te of heat advisory or warning until monday. the duration of this is pretty substantial as well as the extreme temperatures. in phoenix 118 degrees expected today. we re flirting with 120. we ve only been to 120 degrees. three times in history. could even get to 119. look at these temperatures through wednesday even above to 110. it s really not going to abate dramatically through next week. 116 today is the forecast. 115 are the old records. 1 117. if it gets there on sunday it will be the highest temperature they have seen. pretty dramatic. 134 is the world record temperature and it happened in the u.s. at death valley. we ll get to 129 sunday and monday. really substantial. keeping an eye on this.